Letters to the Editor
number1laing
Published Letters: 100 Editor's Choice: 9
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Clemens
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone believe Clemens at this point? I guess he is mostly getting kicked in the rear thanks to McGwire, Bonds, Giambi, etc., but its possible to believe this clown or any other steroid denier.
McNamee was proven correct on Pettite and several others who have fessed up. Why would he tell the truth about Pettite and just make shit up on Clemens? It makes no sense. Not to mention the circumstancial evidence, pretty much the same evidence there always was for Bonds (including the player in question pinning his inexplicable improvement on an "exercise regimen").
Clemens has pitched for over 20 years but is widely reviled as he repeatedly scorned fans who grew to like him (in Boston, Toronto, NY) in favor of glory and riches. The only thing he had was a begruding respect because his accomplishments could not be denied. Now that respect is gone and this desperate, phony bid to clear his name won't get it back. Karma's a bitch.
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Microsoft
[Read the article: Oh no, is Apple's movie rental plan going to suck?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Microsoft's Xbox 360 Video Marketplace is pretty good. It gives you a week to watch it and you can watch it as much as you want within 24 hours. I really don't see the griping about the 24 hour limit, I really don't - for every one movie that fits your example ("tough to get through"), there's about a thousand which are not.
There's even HD, but it costs more. The only problem is the selection is awful, to put it charitably, and the movies rotate in and out. The HD is also too small for more than 1 HD movie at a time. Still I heard its more successful than MS could have hoped for, so there is a market.
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@Mike Pace
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I like that we give the players December off. They've been hitting it hard since spring-ball, and all you whiners want 3 or 4 more games."
No. I'd rather the season was made shorter, actually. They extended it last year and that just meant another tomato can on the schedule.
People act like getting a playoff into CFB is some sort of mystical puzzle, unable to be cracked. What do we do about the bowls? What do we do about the schedule? How do we make sure the players don't play too long?
It's not a mystical puzzle. Lots of CFB teams have playoffs and play regular schedules. They just are not D-1. Appalachian State won a playoff and was crowned as a legitimate champion, with the season ending on December 14th (3.5 weeks before D1 ended), with a bye week, and they played 14 games. LSU played... 14 games!
The current system is a broken joke and the solution already exists, in plain view, for all to see. The only question is if you want to look at it.
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NE
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only did Brady's first incomplete pass hit the hands of his receiver, but so did his second (Wes Welker). Brady was two dropped passes away from a 28-for-28 game.
Some of my friends are picking San Diego... you gotta be nuts to pick against NE by now. I have watched that team all year... they can beat you any way they have to. Shut down Welker and Stallworth and Brady flings it to Moss. Shut down Moss and they pass short to the TE and Welker in the slot. Shut down the whole passing game and Maroney will step in and make plays. Shut down EVERYTHING like the Eagles and Ravens and Colts and they will still keep it close, rattle you, and capitalize on inevitable mistakes. Brady can't be rattled, nobody cares about anything but winning, they don't look ahead, the defense doesn't break, the only team that had a shot to beat em was the Colts.
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24 hours
[Read the article: Apple's solid Macworld is kind of a letdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You get 24 hours after you hit the play button. But you get 30 days from the moment you download to start watching it.
How many people watch half a movie now and the other half 2 or 3 days later? I can't remember a single time I have ever done that. Maybe it's common. I have no idea. But it sure sounds strange.
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Fox Business Channel
[Read the article: Republicans make Fox News sick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fox News was, essentially, a deal with the devil. By becoming more or less a propaganda arm of the GOP, they gained massive popularity across a huge chunk of America (30% of 300 million is a lot of people!) but destroyed their reputation with the rest.
Anyone who is responsible for money knows they can't watch FBC. The Fox brand has no reputation for serious reporting and plastering the Wall Street Journal name everywhere in 3 years won't change that.
FBC is doomed because of that deal with the devil.
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Dobbs the populist
[Read the article: Lou Dobbs vs. La Raza]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, I remember reading an article on Dobbs which started out talking about the fancy pants restaurant in NYC he goes to all the time where he was eating a $50 burger or something. Yet he's considered a true man fighting for middle America and John Edwards is a phony. Huh?
But anyway, Lou Dobbs is no bigot. But there's that old saying about lying down with dogs, and The Minutemen are dogs. They are very bad people. Giving them credence does your message and middle America no favors.
Lou Dobbs is a smart guy. He graduated from Harvard. He knows what's really going on (the gross excesses and abuses of our "capitalist" system), and I am sure he knows illegal immigrants are a symptom not a cause.